Blogging Story: Tonya Wright

By BWA Staff | 2 comments

This blogging story comes to us from Tonya Wright of Room to Grow: Making Early Childhood Count. 

Many years ago, my two best friends and I spent our summers planning to open a summer camp in our own neighborhood. Now, really, we were only about 8 or 9 years old ourselves! The summer camp never opened (what parent would drop off their 5 year old to us when we weren’t much older!), but not for lack of trying. Our parents never doubted us and even supported our ventures. They took us to the library and we checked out books on summer camp, and they even bought us clipboards! Now, having a clipboard makes you official, right? Well, that’s what we thought too! Aside from the summer camp, we had many other plans in our younger years. We planned plays, musicals, and dance schools over the next few years. Our childhood set us in motion to become the women that we are today. All three of us are directly impacting the lives of children and their families.

In addition to my professional career as a supervisor for an early childhood program, I was attending graduate school, and blogging at the same time. Impressed? Don’t be! I had only been “blogging” in my head – I cannot tell you how many times I had “written” a story, post, or comment in my head. Usually something in the world inspired me and I’d think of an entire blog to write. The problem is, none of those thoughts actually transferred from my head to the computer!

When I finished school, graduating with a 4.0 GPA, I filled the void by finally creating the blog I had been writing in my head for the past two years. I’ve been blogging for about one year now but I’ve been in the field of early childhood for more than 20 years. The goal of my blog is to spread the word to teachers and parents the importance of literacy and quality early childhood experiences.

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